Lesson plan title: Bee-Bot Bug Dance Activity overview:
Grade level: Kindergarten & First grade
Students will listen to the story Bug Dance. Each group will program their bee bot to travel the steps of the dance.
Art & Math concepts addressed:
Dance Choreography
Team work
Direction: right, left, backward, and forward
Space & movement
Pattern
Recognize similarities and differences between visual art, music, and dance
Extensions/Adaptations:
Students can create their own dance; they will need to draw cards illustrating the steps to the dance so other bee-bots can participate in the dance.
Students can draw a portrait of the bee-bot with a bug character from the story.
In music students can learn to perform the new dances!
Students can explore the kinds of lines they can create with their bee-bots while exploring dance.
Bee-Bot Bug Dance
Activity overview:
Grade level: Kindergarten & First grade
- Students will listen to the story Bug Dance. Each group will program their bee bot to travel the steps of the dance.
Art & Math concepts addressed:Dance Choreography
Team work
Direction: right, left, backward, and forward
Space & movement
Pattern
Recognize similarities and differences between visual art, music, and dance
Extensions/Adaptations:
- Students can create their own dance; they will need to draw cards illustrating the steps to the dance so other bee-bots can participate in the dance.
- Students can draw a portrait of the bee-bot with a bug character from the story.
- In music students can learn to perform the new dances!
- Students can explore the kinds of lines they can create with their bee-bots while exploring dance.
Literature:Book: Bug Dance by Stuart J. Murphy; illustrated by Christopher Santoro
Web Resources:
Dancing lessons online:
http://www.canteach.ca/elementary/fadance.html
Creative Dance Lesson: teaching the elements of art:: space
http://teachers.net/lessons/posts/1825.html
Materials needed:
- 5 Bee-bot robots
- Sticks with students’ names to organize groups
- Blank cards for creating new dance
- Paper
- Crayons
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